Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes,
goats, poultry, and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's
family ... by William Cobbett(
Book
)67
editions published
between
1821
and
2013
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
621 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was at various times a soldier, a farmer, a radical activist and politician, and a journalist.
At a time when the Industrial Revolution was dramatically changing the face of rural Britain, Cobbett was constantly concerned
with improving the living conditions of the labouring classes. First published in 1821 as a series of pamphlets that sold
over 30,000 copies, Cottage Economy demonstrates Cobbett's philosophy that the labourer should be taught industry, sobriety,
frugality and 'the duty of using his best exertions for the rearing of his family'. With practical instructions, still relevant
to those who seek to become self-reliant, Cobbett teaches the labouring classes of the nineteenth century the arts of brewing
beer, keeping livestock, making bread, and 'other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family.'
Cottage Economy performs timelessly as the quintessential guide to self-sufficiency

The American gardener : or, A treatise on the situation, soil, fencing and laying-out of gardens ; on the making and managing
of hot-beds and green-houses ; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and
flowers by William Cobbett(
Book
)62
editions published
between
1819
and
2015
in
English
and held by
544 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Back in print after 150 years Out of print since 1856, The American Gardener is perhaps the first classic work of American
gardening literature. In it, William Cobbett, Victorian England's greatest and most gifted journalist, draws upon his experiences
during a two-year exile on a Long Island, New York, farm to lay out the rudiments of gardening for American farmers and, ultimately,
to tailor principles developed in wet, drippy, weed-prone British gardens to their fine, sun-drenched counterparts in America.
Full of practical knowledge memorably imparted with Cobbett's gift for the indelible phrase, The American Gardener offers
advice still useful today on all aspects of gardening, with special attention to those plants successful in the New World,
including the artichoke ("indeed, a thistle upon a gigantic scale") and the increasingly ubiquitous potato. Rediscovered 180
years after its composition, The American Gardener is evidence of a great mind and pen at work in the earliest days of American
gardens. This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a New York Times editorialist
and the author of The Rural Life, Making Hay, and The Last Fine Time. From the Trade Paperback edition

The opinions of William Cobbett by William Cobbett(
Book
)11
editions published
between
1944
and
2013
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
174 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, Cobbett
had a talent for controversial and pugnacious writing that echoes down the centuries and still rings fresh today. Commemorating
the 250th anniversary of Cobbett's birth in 1763, this book provides a selection of his writings - both published and unpublished
- that highlight his talents, obsessions, and concerns. This book not only brings to life the dynamic and rumbustious world
of Georgian England within which Cobbett moved, but also reveals many uncanny parallels with m